If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.

A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.

A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.